Vice President vs. Reality
Somebody needs to get Slow Joe back on his meds or on his teleprompter fast because it’s apparent that he’s suffering from delusions. Here’s a quote about how the stimulus is working:
“In my wildest dreams, I never thought it would work this well.”
Fortunately, House GOP leader Boehner is there to correct him:
The Vice President is wildly out-of-touch if he thinks the trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ has worked when the nation’s unemployment rate is the highest it’s been in decades.
Earlier this year, Democrats promised the American people that the so-called ‘stimulus’ would create jobs immediately and keep the unemployment rate from going above eight percent. Some 2.4 million jobs have been lost since the Democrats’ plan was enacted. Now, Democrats in Washington are attempting to claim it is working even while predicting an extended period of severe joblessness. They can’t have it both ways.
Millions of unemployed American workers are being left behind by this administration’s economic policies. A jobless recovery is not what the American people were promised. Republicans have proposed smart policies to help hard-working families and small businesses across America weather this storm and get back to creating jobs.
Vice President Biden is cheerleading when there’s nothing to cheer about. Economic growth isn’t happening. Jobs aren’t being created. Deficits are skyrocketing. Government is taking over industries.
Ask Dave Kleis how well he thinks the stimulus is working. Ask New Flyer how well they think it’s working. I’ll bet the proverbial ranch that their opinion of the stimulus is dramatically differently than Vice President Biden’s opinion.
Mike Pence also jumped all over Biden’s comments:
Unless the Vice President’s measure of stimulus success is the highest unemployment rate in 26 years, then it is hard to fit his wildest dreams with reality. The reality is the Obama Administration promised that borrowing $787 billion would keep our nation’s unemployment below 8 percent. Now, after eight months of stimulus spending, more than two million jobs have been lost and unemployment is quickly approaching 10 percent.
Never in our wildest dreams did we expect the Administration’s forecasts to be so far off. Let’s give the American people back their hard-earned money, and work together on a real economic recovery plan based on tax relief for working families and fiscal discipline in Washington.
I’m betting that more people agree with Chairman Pence’s statement than with Vice President Biden’s statement. I think that alot of people are questioning this administration’s forecasts. They’ve been off dramatically in terms of their deficit projections. Simlilarly, they’ve been off dramatically on job creation/unemployment forecasts, too.
I wouldn’t doubt it if Vice President Biden is worried if he’ll be asked to serve again in a second Obama administration. After all, he’s in charge of monitoring the stimulus progress. Thus far, the stimulus has stunk it up in the American people’s eyes.
Technorati Tags: Stimulus, Joe Biden, President Obama, Unemployment, Deficits, Democrats, John Boehner, Mike Pence, Republicans
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
September 26th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
How could anyone possibly use “Vice President Joe Biden” and the word “reality” in the same article without using “has no concept of” in the same sentence?
But in the admin’s defense, there are still about thirty-five people employed in the entire United States, so using Obamath, he’s “created or saved” about 140 million jobs so far with the stimulus package, and add that to the one he keeps blaming on GW there’s about 412,792,000 people employed in the United States today, all thanks to our glorious messiah and leader.
And I’m sure our prime creditor, China, believes every word drooling from Duh-1’s overused mouth.